Full Schedule

Science Spotlight Moderator: Danai Georgiadou – Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), A*STAR

Science Spotlight Speaker: Deepika Rajesh, PhD – Roslin Technologies Limited

Science Spotlight Speaker: Alfredo Franco-Obregón, PhD (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore

Science Spotlight Speaker: Jianyong Han, PhD (he/him/his) – China Agricultural University

Science Spotlight Speaker: Shigeki Sugli, PhD (he/him/his) – Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), A*STAR

Science Spotlight Speaker: Stephan Alfaro (he/him/his) – UPSIDE Foods

Science Spotlight Speaker: Zi Ying Tan

Science Spotlight Moderator: Matthew Dominguez (he/him/his) – Gladstone Institutes

Science Spotlight Speaker: Nisha Iyer, PhD (she/her/hers) – Tufts University

Science Spotlight Speaker: Lyandysha Zholudeva, PhD – Gladstone Institutes

Science Spotlight Speaker: Maria del Mar Sánchez Martin, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Standford

Science Spotlight Speaker: Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Keio University

Science Spotlight Moderator: Chloe Kan – The University of Hong Kong

Science Spotlight Moderator: Rio Sugimura, MD, PhD – The University of Hong Kong

Science Spotlight Speaker: Carlos Filipe Pereira, PhD – Lund University

Science Spotlight Speaker: Christine A. Wells – University of Melbourne

Science Spotlight Speaker: Bin Zhou, MD, PhD – Chinese Academy of Sciences

Science Spotlight Speaker: Kathy Lui, PhD – The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Science Spotlight Speaker: Weike Pei – Westlake University

Science Spotlight Speaker: Jian Shu, PhD – Harvard Medical School

Science Spotlight Moderator: Megan Munsie, PhD (she/her/hers) – Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and University of Melbourne

Science Spotlight Speaker: Martine C. de Vries, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Leiden University Medical Center

Science Spotlight Speaker: Rosario Isasi, JD MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Miami

Science Spotlight Speaker: Roslyn Le Gautier – Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

Science Spotlight Speaker: Hilda Mekelenkamp, PhD, RN – Leiden University Medical Centre

Science Spotlight Speaker: Kazuto Kato, PhD – Osaka University

Science Spotlight Speaker: Nienke de Graeff, MA MD PhD (she/her/hers) – Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden University

Co-Chair: Tenneille Ludwig, PhD (she/her/hers) – WiCell Research Institute

Co-Chair: Arnold R. Kriegstein, MD, PhD – University of California, San Francisco

Presenting Author: Clive N. Svendsen, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute

Presenting Author: Michael Davis, PhD – Emory University

Presenting Author: Andres Bratt-Leal, PhD – Aspen Neuroscience Inc.

Presenting Author: Jun Takahashi, MD, PhD – Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University

Chair: Valentina Greco, PhD – Yale Stem Cell Center,Yale Medical School

Plenary Speaker: Claire Booth, MBBS MSc PhD FRCPCH (she/her/hers) – UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

Plenary Speaker: Vidita A. Vaidya, PhD (she/her/hers) – Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Plenary Speaker: Michael S. Pepper, MBChB, PhD, MD, PD (he/him/his) – University of Pretoria

Plenary Speaker: Masayo Takahashi, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Vision Care Inc., and Kobe City Eye Hospital, Ritsumeikan University

Showcase Presenter: Masahiro Kino-oka

Showcase Presenter: Andrew Gaffney, PhD – STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.

Showcase Presenter: Tianfu Zhang, PhD – ACROBiosystems

Speaker: Mee-Hae Kim, PhD – Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University

Showcase Presenter: Robert Judson, PhD (he/him/his) – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.

Focus Session Moderator: Clive N. Svendsen, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute

Focus Session Speaker: Malin Parmar, PhD – Lund University

Focus Session Speaker: Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Keio University

Focus Session Moderator: Ruwanthi Gunawardane, PhD (she/her/hers) – Allen Institute for Cell Science

Focus Session Speaker: Soah Lee, PhD

Focus Session Speaker: Rebecca Zaunbrecher, PhD (she/her/hers) – Allen Institute for Cell Science

Focus Session Speaker: Leigh K. Harris, PhD – Allen Institute

Focus Session Speaker: Gideon Dunster, PhD (he/him/his) – Allen Institute

Focus Session Speaker: Sadao Ota, PhD

Panelist: Janet Rossant, PhD – The Gairdner Foundation

Panelist: Martin F. Pera, PhD – The Jackson Laboratories

Panelist: Mingxia Gu, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center

Panelist: Yvonne Fisher, PhD

Focus Session Moderator: Amit Rakhit, MD – BlueRock Therapeutics

Focus Session Speaker: Lorenz Studer, MD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Focus Session Speaker: Andrew Evans, MD – The Royal Melbourne Hospital

Focus Session Moderator: Wenli Yang, PhD – University of Pennsylvania

Focus Session Speaker: Chong Li, PhD

Focus Session Speaker: Stefan Semrau, PhD – New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute

Focus Session Speaker: Kimberly A. Snyder, MSc – STEMCELL Technologies

Focus Session Speaker: Dhruv Sareen, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Focus Session Speaker: Zhe Zhang, PhD

Focus Session Speaker: Xiaoxia Cui, PhD – Washington University in St. Louis

Theater Speaker: Austin Passaro, PhD – Axion BioSystems

Theater Speaker: Rafael Edgardo Carazo Salas, PhD – CellVoyant

Theater Speaker: Adel Benamara, PhD – CellVoyant Technologies Ltd

Theater Speaker: Rock Pulak, PhD – Director of Life Science Technologies, Union Biometrica, Inc.

Showcase Presenter: Matthew McCormack

Showcase Presenter: Ashlee Hutchinson

Speaker: Shanzheng Yang, PhD (he/him/his) – Shanghai UniXell Biotechnology

Showcase Presenter: Hyungtaek Jeon, PhD

Moderator: Daylon James

Moderator: Arun Sharma

Panelist: Hongkui Deng, PhD – Peking University

Speaker: Candice Liew

Co-Chair: Kathryn S. Jones, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Auckland

Co-Chair: Shahragim Tajbakhsh, PhD – Institut Pasteur Stem Cells and Development

Concurrent Speaker: Mayssa H. Mokalled, PhD – Washington University, School of Medicine

Presenting Author: Albert Ernesto Almada, PhD – University of Southern California (USC)

Presenting Author: Yi Sun – ShanghaiTech University

Presenting Author: Hui Zhang, PhD – Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

Presenting Author: Kai Lei, PhD – Westlake University

Concurrent Speaker: Tatiana Sandoval-Guzmán, PhD (she/her/hers) – Technische Universität Dresden

Chair: Jacqueline Barry, PhD – Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult

Speaker: Jack Mosher, PhD (he/him/his) – International Society for Stem Cell Research

Speaker: Tenneille Ludwig, PhD (she/her/hers) – WiCell Research Institute

Speaker: Jung-Hyun Kim

Speaker: Glyn Stacey, PhD – International Stem Cell and Banking Initiative

Speaker: Ricardo Baptista, Eng PhD (he/him/his) – SmartCella

Speaker: Dhruv Sareen, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Speaker: Clive N. Svendsen, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute

Speaker: John Rasko – Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Speaker: Deborah Hursh, PhD (she/her/hers) – CBER/FDA

Co-Chair: Andrew Gaffney, PhD – STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.

Co-Chair: David Elliott, PhD – Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

Concurrent Speaker: Qiurong Ding, PhD – Shanghai Institute for Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Presenting Author: Shyh-Chang Ng, PhD – Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Presenting Author: Qianhui Yu, PhD – Institute of Human Biology

Presenting Author: Wei Jiang, Ph.D (he/him/his) – Wuhan University

Presenting Author: Xudong Fu, PhD (he/him/his) – Zhejiang University

Concurrent Speaker: Marlen Knobloch, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Co-Chair: Haifan Lin, PhD – Yale University School of Medicine

Co-Chair: Ying Zhang, PhD – The Francis Crick Institute

Concurrent Speaker: Honglin Wang, PhD – Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Presenting Author: Chia-Wei Cheng, PhD – Columbia University Dept of Genetics and Development

Presenting Author: Shahragim Tajbakhsh, PhD – Institut Pasteur Stem Cells and Development

Presenting Author: Min Yang, PhD In Progress – National Institute of Biological Sciences

Presenting Author: Sangbum Park, PhD (he/him/his) – Michigan State University

Concurrent Speaker: Bing Zhang, PhD – Westlake University

Co-Chair: Evan L. Lee Graham, PhD (he/him/his) – BioLamina

Co-Chair: Ken Zaret, PhD (he/him/his) – Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Presenting Author: Rosario Isasi, JD MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Miami

Presenting Author: Sarah Kieler Saietz, MSc, BSc (she/her/hers) – Karolinska Institutet

Presenting Author: Mo Li, PhD – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Presenting Author: Alice Del Vecchio – Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS

Co-Chair: Shuibing Chen, PhD – Weill Cornell Medical College

Co-Chair: Martin F. Pera, PhD – The Jackson Laboratories

Concurrent Speaker: Paul Pang, PhD – Greenstone Biosciences

Presenting Author: Yuting Fu, PhD – Westlake University

Presenting Author: Lotta E. Oikari, PhD (she/her/hers) – QIMR Berghofer

Presenting Author: Liam Allen Reed – University of Nottingham

Presenting Author: Luciani Renata Silveira de Carvalho, MD, PhD – University of São Paulo

Concurrent Speaker: Benedetta Artegiani, PhD and Delilah Hendriks, PhD (she/her/hers) – Princess Maxima Center

Co-Chair: Tina Mukherjee – Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inSTEM)

Co-Chair: Takanori Takebe, MD, PhD – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Osaka University, and Institute of Science Tokyo

Plenary Speaker: Tao Tan, PhD (he/him/his) – Kunming University of Science and Technology

Plenary Speaker: Bo Wang, PhD – Stanford University

Plenary Speaker: Misao Fujita, PhD – Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University

Plenary Speaker: Hongmei Wang, PhD – Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Anne McLaren Memorial Lecture

Chair: Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA – Johns Hopkins University

Concurrent Speaker: Sergiu P. Pașca, PhD – Stanford University

Concurrent Speaker: Julian Savulescu – National University of Singapore

Commentator: Paola Arlotta, PhD (she/her/hers) – Harvard University

Commentator: Kazuto Kato, PhD – Osaka University

Co-Chair: Robin Lovell-Badge, PhD – The Francis Crick Institute

Co-Chair: Kathy Niakan, PhD – University of Cambridge

Concurrent Speaker: Ayelete Voskoboynik, PhD (she/her/hers) – Stanford University

Presenting Author: Rui Fan, PHD – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine

Presenting Author: Anita Adami, MSc – Lund University

Presenting Author: Assa Sherman, PhD Candidate – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Presenting Author: Lauren Goins, PhD – Stanford University

Concurrent Speaker: Florian Raible, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Vienna

Co-Chair: Ya-Wen Chen, PhD (she/her/hers) – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Co-Chair: Jürgen Knoblich, PhD – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Science

Concurrent Speaker: Hiromitsu Nakauchi, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Stanford University, USA and Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan

Presenting Author: Katja G. Weinacht, MD, PhD – Stanford University

Presenting Author: Irene Talon, PhD (she/her/hers) – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics

Presenting Author: Sean B. Wilson, PhD – reNEW, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine

Presenting Author: Xiling Shen, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Concurrent Speaker: Liangxue Lai, PhD – Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Co-Chair: Jihwan Song – CHA University

Co-Chair: Akitsu Hotta, PhD – CiRA, Kyoto University

Concurrent Speaker: Valerie Gouon-Evans, PhD, PharmD (she/her/hers) – Boston University and Boston Medical Center

Presenting Author: Thierry VandenDriessche, PhD (he/him/his) – Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

Presenting Author: Jeng-Fan Lo, PhD – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Presenting Author: Bruno Ghirotto, MSc – University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Presenting Author: Celine Bueds (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven

Concurrent Speaker: Thomas Eschenhagen, MD (he/him/his) – University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf

Co-Chair: King Hang Tommy Mau – The Francis Crick Institute

Co-Chair: Wei Du, MD, PhD – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Concurrent Speaker: Stephanie Ma, PhD – The University of Hong Kong

Presenting Author: Tianchi Xin, PhD – Yale School of Medicine

Presenting Author: Jonathan Jung (he/him/his) – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Presenting Author: Anupama Hemalatha, PhD – Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research

Presenting Author: Leonard I. Zon, MD – Boston Children's Hospital

Concurrent Speaker: Ton Rabelink, MD – Leiden University Medical Center

Co-Chair: Gordon Keller, PhD – McEwen Stem Cell Institute, University Health Network

Co-Chair: Jaime Imitola – Deparment of Neurology University of Connecticut

Concurrent Speaker: Megan Levings, PhD – University of British Columbia

Presenting Author: Asuka Morizane, PhD MD – Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital

Presenting Author: Marco Cortese, PhD (he/him/his) – Candiolo Cancer Institute

Presenting Author: Yasunori Aizawa, PhD – Logomix, Inc.

Presenting Author: Lili Yang, PhD – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Concurrent Speaker: Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD – Sana Biotechnology Inc. and UCSF

Showcase Presenter: Sebastian Knöbel, PhD – Miltenyi Biotec

Showcase Presenter: Shinsuke Yoshida, PhD – CiRA Foundation

Showcase Presenter: Ann Byrne – bit.bio

Showcase Presenter: Gianmarco Mastrogiovanni – Bit Bio Ltd

Showcase Presenter: Fredrik Lanner, PhD – Karolinska Institutet

Showcase Presenter: Christian C. Kramme, PhD, BS (he/him/his) – Gameto Inc.

Showcase Presenter: Bruna Paulsen – Gameto Inc.

Showcase Presenter: Ferran Barrachina, PhD (he/him/his) – Gameto Inc.

Showcase Presenter: Jen Pan

Showcase Presenter: Hsiu-Chuan Lin, PhD – ETH Zürich

Showcase Presenter: Marie Engelene J. Obien, PhD – MaxWell Biosystems

Showcase Presenter: Zhuoliang Li, PhD – MaxWell Biosystems AG

Speaker: Diana Golubeva – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.

Speaker: Rukmini Ladi – Sartorius Stedim North America

Speaker: Jonathan Whitchurch, Phd – IotaSciences

Speaker: Jessie Ni – BioLegend

Speaker: Sam Tsz Wing

Theater Speaker: Rafael Edgardo Carazo Salas, PhD – CellVoyant

Theater Speaker: Adel Benamara, PhD – CellVoyant Technologies Ltd

Showcase Presenter: Yasunori Aizawa, PhD – Logomix, Inc.

Co-Chair: Jacqueline Barry, PhD – Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult

Co-Chair: Fanyi Zeng

Concurrent Speaker: Emi K. Nishimura, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – The University of Tokyo

Presenting Author: Andrew Olander – University of California, Santa Cruz

Presenting Author: Paula Martos Salvo – Lund University

Presenting Author: Lily Guo, PhD – Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

Concurrent Speaker: Thomas Rando, MD, PhD – University of California Los Angeles

Co-Chair: Nienke de Graeff, MA MD PhD (she/her/hers) – Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden University

Co-Chair: Jian Shu, PhD – Harvard Medical School

Presenting Author: Lap Hang Tse, PhD – The University of Hong Kong

Presenting Author: Vincent R. Knight-Schrijver, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Cambridge

Presenting Author: Yang Fu (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Presenting Author: Huaigeng Xu, M.D.,Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Concurrent Speaker: Nathan Palpant, PhD – The University of Queensland

Concurrent Speaker: Jiguang Wang, PhD – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Panelist: William KC Cheung, PhD – Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation

Panelist: Stylianos Lefkopoulos, PhD – Springer Nature

Panelist: Megan Munsie, PhD (she/her/hers) – Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and University of Melbourne

Panelist: Janet Rossant, PhD – The Gairdner Foundation

Moderator: Anjie Ni – McGill University

Co-Chair: Denise Zujur, PhD – Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University

Co-Chair: William J. Anderson – Harvard University

Concurrent Speaker: Ryuichi Okamoto, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Institute of Science Tokyo

Presenting Author: Kevin D. Costa – Novoheart, Medera Biopharm

Presenting Author: Wei Zuo, PhD (he/him/his) – Tongji University

Presenting Author: Shin-Jeong Lee, PhD – Yonsei University

Presenting Author: Marcelo N. Rivolta, MD PhD – University of Sheffield and Rinri Therapeutics

Concurrent Speaker: Xin Cheng, PhD – Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Co-Chair: Mingxia Gu, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center

Co-Chair: Gabriele Gelezauskaite – University of Sheffield

Concurrent Speaker: Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Weizmann Institute of Science

Presenting Author: Xingguo Liu – Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Presenting Author: Tianming Wu, PhD – The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Presenting Author: Ying Zhang, PhD – The Francis Crick Institute

Presenting Author: Qiong Wang, MD & PhD (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Concurrent Speaker: Bhavana Muralidharan, PhD – Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine

Chair: Ivana Barbaric, DPhil – The University of Sheffield

Chair: Jennifer Moody, PhD – Danaher

Concurrent Speaker: Ricardo Baptista, Eng PhD (he/him/his) – SmartCella

Concurrent Speaker: Tenneille Ludwig, PhD (she/her/hers) – WiCell Research Institute

Concurrent Speaker: Stefan Irion, MD (he/him/his) – BlueRock Therapeutics

Concurrent Speaker: Lijian Hui, PhD – Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, CAS

Concurrent Speaker: Ana Hidalgo-Simon, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Leiden University Medical Center

Co-Chair: Stuart Forbes, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – The University of Edinburgh

Co-Chair: Su-Yi Tsai – National Taiwan University

Concurrent Speaker: Sina Bartfeld, PhD – Technische Universität Berlin

Presenting Author: Amos Chungwon Lee, PhD – Meteor Biotech

Presenting Author: Jie ZHOU, PhD – The University of Hong Kong

Presenting Author: Jose Agustin Cota Coronado, PhD – Monash University

Presenting Author: Ying Xi, PhD (she/her/hers) – ShanghaiTech University, School of Life Science & Technology

Concurrent Speaker: Kazuo Takayama, PhD (he/him/his) – Kyoto University

Co-Chair: Kirsten C. Sadler Edepli, PhD – NYUAD

Co-Chair: Lijian Hui, PhD – Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, CAS

Plenary Speaker: James Hudson, PhD (he/him/his) – QIMR Berghofer

Plenary Speaker: Hongyan Wang, PhD (she/her/hers) – Duke-NUS Medical School

Award Winner: Paola Arlotta, PhD (she/her/hers) – Harvard University

Plenary Speaker: Toshio Suda, MD,PhD – Institute of Hematology and Blood Disease Hospital, Ernest McCullough Memorial Lecture

Showcase Presenter: Riya Sharma, BSc (she/her/hers) – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.

Co-Chair: Uma Lakshmipathy, PhD (she/her/hers) – Thermo Fisher Scientific

Co-Chair: Lee L. Rubin – Harvard University

Concurrent Speaker: Tae-Eun Park, PhD (she/her/hers) – Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

Presenting Author: Yuan-Hung Liu, MD – Far Eastern Memorial Hospital

Presenting Author: Zhe Wang, PhD – Kyoto University

Presenting Author: Youngdoo Chung – Dankook University

Presenting Author: Chao Christina Liang, BDS, MDS (she/her/hers) – The University of Hong Kong

Concurrent Speaker: Linna Zhou, PhD (she/her/hers) – Nuffield Department of Medicine and Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford

Co-Chair: Hongkui Deng, PhD – Peking University

Co-Chair: Athanasia D. Panopoulos, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Concurrent Speaker: Maria Pia Cosma, PhD – Centre for Genomic Regulation

Presenting Author: Jean Paul Chadarevian, PhD – University of California, Irvine

Presenting Author: Rongrong Wu, PhD (she/her/hers) – Zhejiang University

Presenting Author: Dong-Wook Kim, PhD – Yonsei Univ College of Medicine

Presenting Author: Keisuke Kaji, PhD – University of Edinburgh

Concurrent Speaker: Pentao Liu, PhD (he/him/his) – The University of Hong Kong

Moderator: Misao Fujita, PhD – Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University

Moderator: Douglas Sipp – Riken Center for Biosystems Dynamics, Japan

Concurrent Speaker: Jaime Imitola – Deparment of Neurology University of Connecticut

Concurrent Speaker: Yaojin Peng, PhD (he/him/his) – Institution of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Concurrent Speaker: Ji hyeon Ju – College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea

Concurrent Speaker: Marlena Pecyna, PhD, habilitation (she/her/hers) – Jagiellonian University

Co-Chair: Clive N. Svendsen, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute

Co-Chair: Malin Parmar, PhD (she/her/hers) – Lund University

Concurrent Speaker: Sumru Bayin, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge

Presenting Author: DI PAN, Msc (he/him/his) – Australian National University

Presenting Author: Ana Lilia Serna-Valverde, MD, PhD – University of Nottingham

Presenting Author: Julien Muffat, Ph.D. – University of Toronto/The Hospital for Sick Children

Presenting Author: Lyandysha Zholudeva, PhD – Gladstone Institutes

Concurrent Speaker: Patrick C.H Hsieh, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica

Co-Chair: Carlos Filipe Pereira, PhD – Lund University

Co-Chair: Nissim Benvenisty, MD,PhD – The Hebrew University

Concurrent Speaker: Eduard Batlle, PhD – Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) & ICREA

Presenting Author: Maria Azkanaz, MSc. (PhD student) – Netherlands Cancer Institute

Presenting Author: Wangqing Dun, PhD – Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College

Presenting Author: Jennifer Pak Yan Ho, MS – Columbia University Medical Center

Presenting Author: Youssef Ellaithy – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Concurrent Speaker: Samra Turajlic, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Francis Crick Institute, The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust

Co-Chair: Anjie Ni – McGill University

Co-Chair: Nika Shakiba – University of British Columbia

Concurrent Speaker: Nicolas Rivron, PhD, Eng. (he/him/his) – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Science

Presenting Author: Antonio Giraldez – Yale School of Medicine

Presenting Author: Maria Giovanna Garone, BSc, MSc, PhD (she/her/hers) – Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

Presenting Author: Jia Ping Tan, PhD – Westlake University

Presenting Author: Jacqueline Larouche – Retro Biosciences

Concurrent Speaker: Alex Gould, PhD (he/him/his) – The Francis Crick Institute

Theater Speaker: Ying Zhang

Co-Chair: Angela R. Wu – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Co-Chair: Lygia da Veiga Pereira, PhD – Universidade de São Paulo

Plenary Speaker: Jean Yang, PhD – University of Sydney

Plenary Speaker: Stuart Forbes, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – The University of Edinburgh

Plenary Speaker: Masaya Nakamura, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Keio University School of Medicine

Plenary Speaker: Wenning Qin, PhD (she/her/hers) – eGenesis, John McNeish Memorial Lecture

Co-Chair: Valentina Greco, PhD – Yale Stem Cell Center,Yale Medical School

Co-Chair: Kathryn S. Cheah – The University of Hong Kong

Moderator: Sophelia Chan, MD – The University of Hong Kong

Panelist: Evan L. Lee Graham, PhD (he/him/his) – BioLamina

Panelist: Christine A. Wells – University of Melbourne

Panelist: Ya-Wen Chen, PhD (she/her/hers) – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Panelist: Raeka Aiyar, PhD (she/her/hers) – Community Science, LLC

Patient Panelist: Josy Pui Shan Chow

Patient Panelist: The Ku Family (they/them/theirs)

Co-Chair: Eugenia Piddini, PhD, BSc, MSc – University of Bristol

Co-Chair: Kathryn S. Cheah – The University of Hong Kong

Award Winner: Yonatan Stelzer, PhD – Weizmann Institute of Science

Award Winner: Gordon Keller, PhD – McEwen Stem Cell Institute, University Health Network

Plenary Speaker: Giulio Cossu, MD (he/him/his) – San Raffaele Scientific Institute